Cigarette holder



June 1943- J. H. BRADY ETAL 2,320,561

CIGARETTE HOLDER Filed July 16, 1941 Patented June 1, 1943 CIGARETTE HOLDER James Henry Brady, Louisville, Ky., assignor of one-half to William E. Curry,

Fla.

Sunset Harbor,

Application July 16, 1941, Serial No. 402,662

1 Claim.

The invention relates to cigarette holders of thin flat one-piece sheet-material, having an aperture for reception of the cigarette at one end thereof and a handle extension, an object of the invention being to provide an improved. device of this description, as will be explained.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combinations of parts as hereinafter set forth in the claim.

In the accompanying drawing,

Figure l is a plan view of the invention, taken from the mirror side thereof.

Figure 2 is a plan view, taken from the advertisement bearing side.

Figure 3 is an edge view of the cigarette loaded holder supported in inclined position with its straight edge and the lower end of the upright cigarette both resting upon a table.

Figure 4 is an edge View, partly in section, of the cigarette loaded holder laid flat upon and slightly projecting at its loaded end portion over the edge of the table.

In this drawing, the numeral l designates the cigarette holder of thin flat one-piece sheetmaterial having the general form of a somewhat truncated isosceles triangle and of a length approximately equal to that of a cigarette, said holder having at the narrow end portion thereof a central circular aperture 2 of a diameter corresponding to that of a cigarette and the circumferential edge of which is adapted to frictionally grip a cigarette inserted therein and having an end portion thereof slightly projecting therethrough, the holder having at its pposite wide end a straight edge 5 forming the base of said triangle. The holder has its longitudinal halves at the wide end portion thereof of a width sufficiently greater than the diameter of a cigarette and of sufficient weight and mass to well counterbalance the cigarette loaded holder supported in inclined position with its straight edge and the lower end of the upright cigarette both resting upon a table 4, (Fig. 3) against being tipped to either side, and to well counterbalance the cigarette loaded holder laid flat upon and slightly projecting at its loaded end portion over the edge of the table, (Fig. 4) against being tipped upon the table edge as a pivot. In other words, the holder is of a shape such that one end portion thereof is of greater width than the other end portion, said other or narrow end portion being provided with the aperture 2, the weight or mass of the wide end portion of the holder being greater than the combined weight or mass of the narrow end portion of the holder and the' cigarette held within said aperture, whereby when the wide end portion of the holder is supported upon the table surface with the narrow end portion and the cigarette held within said aperture positioned in the space adjacent the table edge, the greater weight or mass of said wide end portion will support the combined mass of said narrow end portion and the cigarette in such position.

The above named advantages are of course accentuated should the holder be made of metal, in which case heat from a lighted cigarette which has burned down to a point near the smaller end of holder, will not by convection be likely to reach the fingers of a person handling the holder, to any disagreeable extent,

The cigarette receiving aperture 2 of the holder may be provided with a deeply beveled rim 6 on the side on which the cigarette is inserted and a cylindrical collar 6 on the opposite side, said collar projecting at right angles to the plane of the holder sufiiciently to adapt said collar to have secure frictional grip of and to support the cigarette at right angles to the holder and to prevent any tilting of the cigarette with respect to the holder, as well as to facilitate insertion of the cigarette in the holder and to avoid any tendency to mutilation of the cigarette in such insertion. This bevel and collar may be conveniently formed when the aperture is punched in the flat sheet metal of the holder.

The invention has further advantages in avoidance of nicotine stains from the fingers; being readily cleansed by mere wiping; automatically extinguishing the cigarette should it burn down to the holder, due to slight compression of the tobacco at this point; being adapted to be carried in the pocket or purse without imparting cigarette or smoke odor thereto; being small enough to be readily inserted in or form part of a commercial cigarette package; in saving at least one fifth of the smoking length of a cigarette which may be satisfactorily smoked with a shorter butt; being adapted for more ready insertion of the cigarette; avoidance of contact of smoke from the cigarette with the holder in passing therethrough to the mouth of the user as in the common holder, etc. The invention is thus clean and sanitary and such as a lady would not object to carrying.

I claim:

A cigarette holder, comprising a flat sheet of material having a shape such that one end portion thereof is of greater width than the other end portion, said other narrow end portion having a circular aperture of a diameter corresponding to that of a cigarette, the mass of the wide end portion of the holder being greater than the combined mass of the narrow end portion and the cigarette held within said aperture, whereby when the wide end portion of the holder is supported upon a surface and the narrow end portion and the cigarette held within said aperture positioned in the space adjacent the edge of said surface, the greater mass of the wide end portion will support the combined mass of the narrow end portion and the cigarette in such. position.

JAMES HENRY BRADY. 

